Cable-hanger.



G. G. LARSEN.

CABLE HANGER.

APPLICATION FILED 111111.29, 1910.

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Patented N0v.22,19 1 0.

CABLE-HANGER.

To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, GUSTAV G. LARSEN, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Stacyville, in thecounty of Mitehell and State of Iowa, have invented a certain new and useful Cable-Hanger, of which the following is a specification.

The object-of my invention is to provide a cable hanger of simple, durable and inex-' pensive construction, especially designed for use in "connecting aerial telephone cables with supporting cables or .wires.

More specifically it is my object to provide a device of this kind that may he formed complete of a, single piece of sheet metal and-that may be readily and easily shaped by-hand to closely fit the supporting .cable and the telephone cable and also so arranged that the operator may readily and easily, by hand. extend an integral tongue through slots in the overlapping portions of the hanger to thereby firmly and securely hold the overlapping portions of the hanger together so that the hanger cannot become loosened or unfastened by any of the strains to which devices of this kind are tn'dinarily subjected.

My invention consists in. certain details, in the construction, arrangement and combinae -tion of the various parts of the device, whereby the objects contemplated are attained, as hereinafter more fully set forth, pointed out in my claims and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fi 'ure 1 shows a side elevation of a su I porting wire and an aerial telephone caole and two of my improi'ed cable hangers applied thereto. Figiz? shows a plan view of one of my nnproved hang before being of a hanger embodying my invention. Fig. 4- shows an enlarged. sectional view of same, and Fig; 5 shows a detail, sectional, view through the line 55 of F l.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, I have used the reference numeral 10 to indicate an aerial telephone cable of the ordi nary kind, and 11 a supporting wire for said cable.

My improved hanger is formed of a single piece of sheet metal, as shown in Fig. 5, and

comprisesa body portion 12 having three slots 13, 14 and 15 therein and also having Specification of Letters I'atent.

Application filed March 29, 1910. Serial No. 552,263;

shown at 20 in Fig. 5.

body'portion 12 at a pbintadjacent'to the slot 15.

In. applying my improved hangerto a supporting cable :and a telephone cable, I proceed as follows: I first bend the hanger at point midway between the slots 14 and 15 over the cable 11 and I then bend the hanger at a point between the slots 13 and H under the telephone cable thus bringing the central portion of the hanger and the two ends in overlapping positions with the slots 13, 1-1 and 15 in alineinent with each other. I then bend the tongue 16 over the adjacent edges of the said overlapping parts of the hanger and insert its end through the slot ll and out between the opposite sides of the part containing the slot 1-1 and the part containing the slot 13 as shown at 17 in Fig. 5. I then bend the tongue over the edges of the parts containing the slots 14, and 1.5,as shown at 18 in Fig. 5, and I finally insert the point of the tongue through the. slot 15, as shown at 19 in Fig. 5, and the end of the tongue then projects between the parts containing the slots 13, and ll as The material of which the hanger is made preferably of metal firm enough to support the weight of the cable 12 and yet flexi; ble enough so that it may readily and easily bend by hand in the manner before described. After the said tongue is in position shown -in the drawings, it is obvious that the overlapping parts of thehanger are prevented from spreading apart. and it is also 01 vious that the tongue is firmly and securely held in position so that it cannot become loosened by any of the strains to which devices of this kind are ordinarily subjected.

I claim as my invention:

1. An improved cable hanger, formed of a single piece of sheet metal and provided with longitudinal slots near its ends and adjacent to its central portion, and an integral tongue extended laterally from one end of the hanger adjacent to the slot in said end of the hanger, for the purposes stated.

2. An improved cable hanger, gforined complete of a single piece of bendable metal and provided with three slots arranged near its ends ano near its central portion, and ,an integral tongue extended laterally from a a tongue 16 extended laterally from the 5 point near one end, said parts being so arranged and proportioned that the metal may through said slots as required to hold the 10 be bent between its central portion and one overlapping positions together, for the pur end to overlap a supporting cable and beposes stated. tween ilts centrlal portion and tale other 811116. Des Moines, Iowa, March 18, .1910.

5' to over a a te e one cab e an so'that te central drtion a ild the two ends will stand GUSTAV GEORGE LARSEN' in over lapping positions with the slots Witnesses:

therein in alinement with each other, and R. T. KRAUs, said tongue being capable of being inserted KATIE WELTER. 

